Let's take the business cycle into account. Almost anyone taking office in the 2009-2011 timeframe can claim great powers because of the reflation effect. The same could be said about Obama "creating jobs" while overall employment rates fell. It's not that he had any mastery of economics, it's just that reflation had a greater impact than his policy errors.

Exactly! Any economic success under Republican leadership is the result of careful planning, even if that success happened under their predecessor. Any bad news under Republican leadership is actually good news, and it never happened, and it's Obama's fault.

However, transferring wealth from the rich to the poor has always resulted in economic stimulus, for rather obvious reasons. No state or nation has ever cut their way to prosperity.

I'm just suggesting that socialism works well in the Scandinavian countries. They are continually cited as models by Bernie Sanders and others. It might be that there is something in their culture that makes it work there when it has failed so dismally in places like Venezuela.

I'm just suggesting that socialism works well in the Scandinavian countries. They are continually cited as models by Bernie Sanders and others. It might be that there is something in their culture that makes it work